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Agentic HIL MCP Server

Probe, flash, reset and drive UART and CAN on a real STM32 or other embedded target, policy-gated.

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Published as agentic-hil on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

29 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

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setup has no non-interactive completion path for agents whose host blocks self-configuration

Every eval agent that stopped at the approval gate named the same blocker: setup writes the agent's own user-level MCP registration and skill, exactly what host permission classifiers catch. A first-class escape would convert the stop into a partially configured bench in one step: agentic-hil init already finishes the project half, so the missing piece is machine-readable output naming the exact remaining command (agentic-hil agent-install --agent <agent>), or a setup --project-only alia

Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · closed · 2 comments

Bench proof: the hot-plug read leaves a running core untouched (SysTick five-pair measurement)

#342 shipped the ST-Link typed-debug reads on the least intrusive connect the CLI documents (mode=HOTPLUG, no reset=), and deliberately claims documented, not measured. This issue tracks the measurement that upgrades the claim, on a real bench with a Nucleo attached, everything through the MCP tools:

  1. flash_firmware an ELF whose firmware increments a RAM counter (e.g. volatile uint32_t uptime_ms in SysTick_Handler); put the symbol in debug.allowed_symbols; let the board run about

Read the thread · 2026-08-30 · closed · 1 comment

An MCP conflict names the file but not what it found there

mcp_config_conflict says an unmanaged entry exists and names the file. It does not say what it found there, and that is the one fact that settles what to do next.

A real case: an operator's ~/.claude.json held

{
  "type": "stdio",
  "command": "<a wrapper script under the operator's own ~/.claude>",
  "args": []
}

The refusal is correct: that entry points at a program the operator chose, and rewriting it would hand the hardware gate to something else. But from the report alone

Read the thread · 2026-08-18 · closed · 1 comment

setup's result should shout that the agent must restart before the tools exist

Lived through three recording takes: setup --agent claude-code succeeds, and the session that ran it then waits on MCP tools that cannot appear, because the host reads registrations at session start. The docs say it since #227, but the one place the agent is guaranteed to look is the setup RESULT itself. setup and agent-install should carry restart_required: true plus one sentence ("the session must restart before the agentic-hil tools appear; doctor works now") in their JSON res

Read the thread · 2026-08-14 · closed · 1 comment

Test plans gate dump_memory and read_symbol on the openocd backend, though both tools answer on stlink

Follow-up from #342. test_reactor.py (around line 1834) admits dump_memory and read_symbol plan steps only when the configured debugger is type: openocd, although both underlying tools have answered on the ST-Link backend since 0.18.0, and since #342 they answer non-intrusively. The coverage workflow that motivated #342 (dump RAM-resident measurement data before a run ends) therefore works through the MCP tools but still cannot be written as a plan step on an ST-Link bench.

This needs a

Read the thread · 2026-08-29 · closed · 0 comments

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known_runs and prune_run_records abort the whole listing when one record vanishes between glob and stat

Noticed while fixing #312. known_runs and prune_run_records (src/agentic_hil/runlifecycle.py) sort a glob of record files by st_mtime; a record removed between the glob and the stat (a run finishing and pruning itself, another process cleaning up) raises out of the stat and the outer except OSError abandons the whole listing, so one vanished file hides every other run.

A listing should tolerate members disappearing while it is being taken: stat each candidate individually, skip the ones

Read the thread · 2026-08-20 · closed · 0 comments

plugin manifests: marketplace and plugin descriptions still lead with the genre, not the operations

#321 moved the PyPI summary and the MCP registry description to operations-first wording, and #319 does the same for the docs site's meta description. Two summary surfaces are left in the pre-#321 voice, and they are the ones a Claude Code user reads in the plugin marketplace before deciding to install:

  • .claude-plugin/marketplace.json: "Safe embedded firmware development with hardware-in-the-loop targets via policy-gated MCP tools." Names no operation at all.
  • `plugins/agentic-hil/.claude-

Read the thread · 2026-08-20 · closed · 0 comments

docs: mkdocs site_description still names the genre, not the operations

#316 sharpens the PyPI summary and the MCP registry description to name the operations (probe, flash, reset, UART and CAN on a real STM32 or other embedded target, policy-gated) instead of the genre. The branch for it also adds a Documentation project URL pointing at the rendered docs site, so that site becomes one click from the package page.

The docs site's own <meta name="description"> comes from site_description in mkdocs.yml, and that string is still the shape the other surfaces ju

Read the thread · 2026-08-20 · closed · 0 comments

Captured streams are redacted by key name only, and secrets live in their values

Follow-up to #314, noticed while giving captured streams a body in the rendering: redact_sensitive masks by key name only. A secret that appears inside the VALUE of a captured stream is not masked, and package managers put secrets there: pip and uv print index URLs, and a private index URL routinely carries https://user:token@host/simple/. The machine document has always published those streams under --json, so this is not a new exposure class, but the rendering now shows them to a person

Read the thread · 2026-08-20 · closed · 0 comments

A stop over MCP can race the detached run's state file on a slow runner

tests/test_reactor_mcp_tools.py::test_a_stop_asked_over_mcp_ends_a_waiting_run failed once on Python 3.10 on macos-latest (run 32343626219, first attempt) and passed on the other 17 legs of the same commit and on the rerun. A rerun making it green does not close it; that is how a race stays.

agentic_hil.config.ConfigError: Test run state could not be read.
  (raised through the FileNotFoundError branch while the test waited on the stopped run)
earlier in the same test: ConfigError: Conf

[Read the thread](https://github.com/agentic-hil/agentic-hil/issues/312) · 2026-08-20 · closed · 0 comments

### The pytest plugin's deprecated config selector fails the run, and no page says so

The pytest plugin accepts `--agentic-hil-config` and the matching `agentic_hil_config` ini key. `src/agentic_hil/pytest_plugin.py` registers both as deprecated selectors:

```python
group.addoption(
    "--agentic-hil-config",
    action="store",
    default=None,
    help="Deprecated config selector; must resolve to the discovered authoritative config.",
)
parser.addini("agentic_hil_config", help="Deprecated Agentic HIL config selector.", default=None)

The agentic_hil_config fixture does

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · closed · 0 comments

docs/mcp-hosts.md still carries a verification date from the 0.3.0 release

docs/mcp-hosts.md line 5 says:

This guide was verified against the linked host documentation on 2026-07-14.

That line was last touched by 0737afd, the v0.3.0 release commit of 2026-07-20. The package is now at 0.16.1.dev0, and the changelog records 0.4.0 through 0.16.0 between then and now, all inside the last five weeks. The page itself moved eight times in that window, including f96edbb and fb5c70a on 2026-08-09, cbd7e06 on 2026-08-15 and 0eec572 on 2026-08-16. The file changed

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · closed · 0 comments

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